When I am not a Scientist, I am a runner, a baker, a reader, a writer, a mother, a Christian, a liberal, a wife, a church goer, and a work in progress

Start of a new chapter

Oh, it has been way too long since I blogged. I have been sleeping a lot (A LOT), and that will be the subject of an upcoming post. As will everything that has happened since my last post: choosing and accepting a job, coming to several realizations about postdoc life, taking possibly the second best hiking trip of my life, publishing two papers, and (maybe the most dramatic and life changing of all) losing my trademark light blonde locks.

Most pleased with ourselves

But, I will ease back into the blogging world, before full service is resumed, with a fairly easy post. We have had an offer on a house accepted! Signing on the dotted line still to come, but the offer / negotiations went smoothly and the actual signing should happen TOMORROW, so I am feeling optimistic, and throwing my superstitions to the wind and blogging about it before it is official.

We are just back from Houston, where we saw some 14 houses (all in one day!). We saw it all: a beautiful house in a neighbourhood so bad the realtor wouldn’t let me in the garden (seriously, he got all nervous and said “don’t wander too far” when I went into the yard, then panicked and went “Seriously…. Get in the house”) while a prostitute waved becomingly to Wesley from the corner. We saw a house in a beautiful neighbourhood that had scribbles on every inch of wall, and excrement (human) on the carpet. We saw a bunch of OK so-so places and some wonderful homes, that we were able to narrow down to two we were in love with and a two good back-ups.

The top two were quite different; one I had a really good ‘feeling; about inside, but it was single story and may have needed quite a bit of work. The other I didn’t feel quite so ‘at home’ in, but it was beautiful, in a better neighbourhood, completely redone for sale (complete with granite countertops and laminate floors) and a better family home. We put an offer in, received a counter offer and accepted, Huzzah!

So, it is 2 story. You walk into a large, laminate-floored dining room,

Large dining room (partially shown)

where we will have our new piano and dining table. That leads through to the kitchen, which is open plan to the sitting room.

Kitchen

The sitting room has a fireplace that we’ll never use in the Houson heat, and leads to a gorgeous sun room (with separate A/C), a laundry room, a toilet and coat closet. Upstairs we have 3 bedrooms: a large master with balcony,

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Recent posts from my Crafting blog: Crafts by Lekki

This is only my second ever crafting challenge – here for the Girls Gone Wild Weekend Challenge. Here was the sketch which is quite a classic. I liked that the post encouraged you to think about what you saw in the circle – they had a rabbit in one of theirs. I decided it made […]

I had planned a crafty evening, and my three-year old complied by going to bed early without a fuss… my 3 month old is going through a growth spurt and had other ideas. She’s a great sleeper, just not when she is hungry. As I try not to give her bottles when she is with […]